Workers Who Come to Your House

For about 14 years now, I've been delivering mail in this neighborhood. I know most of the families and many of the kids. Delivering mail is a service your family needs, but they need a lot of other services too.

When you think about the workers who come to your house, the first one you probably think of is me, the mailman. From time to time, I see many of the other workers who come to your house.

I'd like to show you some of them. Like Jimmy, the paper boy, who comes before school. Delivering newspapers is a service.

Think about that newspaper. When we're finished reading it, what do we do with it? Besides throwing away the newspaper, think of all the other things we throw away. What workers come to our house to take away the garbage?

The garbage men are workers who provide us with that service. How can you think of any other workers we need? Hurry! When you have an emergency or any kind of trouble, who comes to your house to help?

What if someone's house caught on fire? You'd know who to call. Firemen are workers we can't do without. From time to time, we also need workers to come to our house to repair things. People men sometimes come into your house to install or repair your telephone.

Fine, now, thank you. I often see others who come to your house to give you services your family needs. Like the electric man, he reads the meters which tell him how much electricity your family uses.

Another meter is for the gas man to read. And another is for the man from the water company. How about when something goes wrong with your plumbing? No water in here. Who do you need to call to fix it?